Based on their results, they suggest that the role of lexis in pragmatic development has been under-emphasized in instructional materials.
The three most crucial explicit lexical instruction and learning strategies are acquiring decontextualised lexis, using dictionaries and inferring from context.
Words once excluded from most dictionaries are researched by the same methods as have been applied to the whole lexis of the language.
The contributors discuss grammar, syntax, lexis, speech, dialects, specialized corpora and software.
The latter can thus be said to embody a measure of dialect variation, at least as regards lexis.
They focus on issues of typology and language distance in lexis, phonetics and phonology.
Is accent alone a distinguishing feature or are features of grammar and lexis also included.
English as used throughout the country is remarkably uniform in syntax and lexis.
